SELECTED SAYINGS 



consumed is on an average expended in the production of energy, 

 the value of foods should largely be based on the amount of energy 

 they will produce in the human body." 



"In search of food to meet the requirements of an impaired 

 digestion, I recall the fact that physicians usually prescribe rice for 

 sick people; that laboring people, upon a diet of rice, though able 

 to perform a large amount of work, complain of being hungry be- 

 tween meals. This was precisely what I wanted — energy with hun- 

 ger. I had it as a child and lost it somewhere in a busy life. Rice 

 eating nations have energy with unimpaired digestion. In Japan it 

 is a common saying among resident American women, 'I could do this 

 if I had a Japanese back,' referring to the strength of loin possessed 

 by the native women. Every traveler in that distant land has noted 

 with surprise the ease with which a jinriksha boy will draw a man 

 six miles an hour along the streets of Tokio. In the late rapid ad- 

 vance upon Pekin it was found that the Japanese could outmarch 

 all the armies of the Orient. With full equipment they advanced 

 all day at double time, and repeated it till even the Russians fell 

 behind exhausted. These women with backs, these jinriksha boys 

 with the speed of horses, and these double-quick soldiers live mainly 

 on rice." 



"The South has been deficient in stock. It has allowed the great 

 majority of its lands to remain unused and then tried to work with 

 the plow and the hoe about one-sixth of the area and make it pay the 

 expenses of all the remainder. 



"All I need to urge is that an effort should be made to produce 

 more cotton per acre rather than extend the number of acres, — 

 because the profit lies in larger yields for the area cultivated, — also 

 that the best staple should be secured." 



"All I have said in relation to the Southern country is based 

 upon the theory that the awakening now in the Southern States will 

 arouse the people to know themselves, their resources, and their 

 possibilities, and that they will strive to adopt the best methods of 

 husbandry, because it is only the best that can meet the wants of a 

 people who are determined to have a high civilization." 



"These field schools are bringing about a revolution. A meeting 

 of the farmers of a township called at a home to discuss a field crop, 



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